Macrium reflect clone drive to ssd full#
But even if that's not the bottleneck in your case (maybe you're backing up a spinning disk to an SSD?), all else being equal, Incremental image backups shouldn't be any slower than Rapid Delta Clones, and Full image backups shouldn't be any slower than whole partition/disk clones. In almost all backup scenarios, the performance bottleneck is the write speed to the destination, and therefore writing compressed (and therefore less) data to the destination means faster backups. Images can use compression, which means they will usually be faster than clones. Imaging allows you to use your destination disk for other purposes since images are just files, whereas in a clone scenario, you're dedicating the entire destination disk to being a clone of your source (or at least a number of partitions on the destination equal to the number on the source, but storing other data in other partitions of a clone target disk can be risky.) With image backups, as long as you have enough capacity at the destination that you don't have to delete all of your existing backups in order to create a new one, then you'll be able to recover from an earlier backup in this scenario. Additionally, in a clone scenario if your clone source fails during a clone operation, then you would be left with nothing. With imaging, you'd be able to keep and look through backups captured at various points in time to extract the file of interest or roll your system back to the desired point. In a clone scenario, if you've already run another clone since that old file version was overwritten/deleted or that application was installed, then you're out of luck. So let's say you want to recover an older version of a file or roll back to a point before you installed an application that turned out to cause cause problems, but you don't realize this need until a while later.
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Imaging allows you to retain multiple backups, whereas a clone only stores a single state of the source. Cloning and imaging each have their own benefits and drawbacks, although for general backup purposes, I greatly prefer images, for several reasons: